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What are the Top 10 Movies of the SUMMER?

A recap of all of the Summer Movies.
I have never done a top 10 list of the summer movies ever and when I think of a pure summer movie: I think of entertainment and fun. Well, sometimes, you do not want just nonsense with no logic to back it up but you want some intelligence from certain movies. Even though it was a rough start to the year and there very few good movies and one great movie, this summer was a summer that surpassed expectations with familiar and unexpected films. Most of these are not guaranteed to be in the end of the year but, we'll see.

This list only ranges in entertainment and maybe 2, 3 or 4 of these will be in my top 10 in the end of the year. You never know.

10. Jurassic World

This is the sequel I was sort of waiting for but despite the holes and flaws of the film (one involving someone's "running shoes" and one involving gasoline), this was a fun summer movie. I was yearning for one since we get only attempts to reincarnate the festive tone of the film and not provide much logic behind the story or its characters. It is pure entertainment with a good performance by Chris Pratt. And, of course, we see dinosaurs again.

9. Spy

There have been 4 spy movies and they are all at least good in their own type of genre raging from action to twisted to comedic. Melissa McCarthy does shine again in Paul Feig's latest collaboration with her and it is a homerun. Rose Byrne and Jude Law give good performances too. But, it was Jason Statham who surprised me with his comedic chops and his signature action that it this bizarre cast turn this movie into something hilariously explosive.

8. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

A surprise can come along and enchant you and this is what the 8th movie on the list did for me. There was an establishing rapport between the three main characters as they were fundamentally saying realistic dialogue to each other and not manipulative and sentimental dialogue that tugs our emotions. This is the movie that The Fault In Our Stars should have been.

7. Trainwreck

Amy Schumer is the key in this successful comedy because the screenplay is honest in how she view things from her personal life, well, maybe not all of her personal life. But, there is humor and intelligence in the story regarding her life and how monogamy is not realistic as to who she gets along with, where she works and who she sleeps with. I mean it is not just her. Everybody does a great job: Bill Hader, Brie Larson, an unrecognizable Tilda Swinton, Colin Quinn, John Cena and even LeBron James.

6. The Gift

This is the surprise of the summer, maybe, the year. Because based on the trailer, it looked like a horror cliched-ridden film. But, no, this is more than that. It is a quietly effective and chilling film about a portrait of long-lost "friends" trying to catch up and try to form a friendship. But, a hidden past can derail everything that someone has achieved. Director Joel Edgerton does a fine job crafting this little project well and gives us three fine performances from Edgerton himself, Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall.

5. Straight Outta Compton

It sounds on paper your typical rise and fall musical picture of a band or singer but it is more than that and it is regarding N.W.A., the controversial rap band with a controversial name. It started a whole trend of the rap genre regarding their loves and their poetry regarding the streets. This is one of the powerful musical biopics in a while and probably will rank as one of top in its genre.

4. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

How can a series keep going and not run out of gas? Well, it is because of only one man: Tom Cruise. This latest Mission: Impossible movie establishes the best suspense and action it can offer this year with four magnificent sequences: the opening airplane scene, the sequence in the opera house, the underwater stunt and the motorcycle chase, which is my favorite. It is not my favorite movie in the series but it is well-established as one of the best series right now.

3. Ant-Man

People, please, see this movie instead of the Avengers sequel, which I liked, but this movie was a lot of fun with its quippy humor and minimalistic action sequences. This is a small-scale superhero movie that I enjoyed from beginning to end with Paul Rudd as the main hero and Michael Douglas as his mentor. I am confident that this is a movie that people will buy or rent and watch over and over again with such gleam.

2. Inside Out

This movie and the #1 movie are the two great movies of the summer and it is difficult to pick the best movies of the summer. But, based on entertainment, this movie is more dramatic and more emotional than advertised. It offers everything for both the children and adults alike ranging from its humor to the one or two scenes that will guarantee you to shed some tears. Pixar is back with one of its best movies in its canon.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road

Now, rarely a sequel or a 4th installment in the series, which in this case, it is a reboot, can offer action throughout with practical effects, a story with impact, great characters and gorgeous direction and cinematography from George Miller. Even, though Tom Hardy's character of Mad Max is quite fantastic and makes us hardly miss Mel Gibson, it is Charlize Theron's movie as she plays Furiosa, one of the best female action characters right now. This is a movie that will be enjoyed for hard-core action fans for the next year or five years.


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